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Mr. Leivers
Mrs. Leivers is the wife of Mr. Leivers and the mother of Edgar, Miriam, Geoffrey, and Maurice. Mrs. Leivers is a deeply religious and highly refined woman. She is gentle and kind-hearted, but very serious and intellectual. Physical activity tires her and she is frail. Mrs. Morel complains that, although Mrs. Leivers is poor, she does not make the best of it and takes no pride in her appearance. Mrs. Leivers, however, is not interested in worldly things and does not care about clothes or the way she looks. She gets on well with and is very kind to Paul.
Mrs. Leivers Quotes in Sons and Lovers
The Sons and Lovers quotes below are all either spoken by Mrs. Leivers or refer to Mrs. Leivers. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 7
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They were both brown-eyed and inclined to be mystical, such women as treasure religion inside them, breathe it in their nostrils, and see the whole of life in a mist thereof. So, to Miriam Christ and God made one great figure, which she loved tremblingly and passionately when a tremendous sunset burned out the western sky; and Ediths and Lucys and Rowenas, Brian de Bois Guilberts, Rob Roys and Guy Mannerings rustled the sunny leaves in the morning, or sat in her bedroom, aloft, alone, when it snowed. That was life to her.
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Mrs. Leivers Quotes in Sons and Lovers
The Sons and Lovers quotes below are all either spoken by Mrs. Leivers or refer to Mrs. Leivers. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 7
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They were both brown-eyed and inclined to be mystical, such women as treasure religion inside them, breathe it in their nostrils, and see the whole of life in a mist thereof. So, to Miriam Christ and God made one great figure, which she loved tremblingly and passionately when a tremendous sunset burned out the western sky; and Ediths and Lucys and Rowenas, Brian de Bois Guilberts, Rob Roys and Guy Mannerings rustled the sunny leaves in the morning, or sat in her bedroom, aloft, alone, when it snowed. That was life to her.
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